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CMP Media Marathon!


Children's Media Project (CMP) has been empowering youth in our region through media arts programming for fourteen years. Now we are reaching out to the community to power our media arts/youth development center. We are asking our students, alumni, friends, and allies if they will participate in this community effort to raise $50,000 in the next two months. Click here if you would like to join us in our efforts by making a tax-deductible donation to Children's Media Project!

Children's Media Project has recently seen an increased need for youth programming in the community. However, decreased funding for these programs has led to a drastic reduction of youth programming available. As this fundraising drive is launched, CMP is working hard to keep our doors open.

We need your help!

Children's Media Project offers a creative atmosphere in a bright three-story firehouse, a beautiful space to learn and make media with our staff of mentors and friends. CMP creates job opportunities for youth, and our programs are focused on workforce development--helping the youth in our region to develop job skills, and life skills too. They learn video-making, radio production, music production, and zine-making. CMP is a place where kids leave the curb and enter an excited realm of opportunity and imagination.

Our community needs youth programming.
CMP is meeting the needs of the community.
CMP needs your support.

We are relying on our network of friends and students to help us reach our goal in the next two months. We are all asking our parents, friends, and co-workers if they will contribute what they can to keep Children's Media Project's programs running. Children's Media Project is inspired by the contributions of community members. Please do what you can to help this community resource thrive!

Please make a tax-deductible donation to help this community resource thrive. Any amount is a step toward the finish line, 50K! Please mail all checks payable to Children's Media Project, to 20 Academy St, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. Donations can also be made online by clicking the donate button.

Donations in any amount are helpful. We have designated certain benefits for the following levels of contribution:

    $20
  • e-newsletter
  • invitations to CMP events and community screenings

    $50

  • e-newsletter
  • invitations to CMP events and community screenings
  • subscription to quarterly CMP web video shorts

    $100

  • e-newsletter
  • invitations to CMP events and community screenings
  • subscription to quarterly CMP web video shorts
  • best of DROP TV and Radio Uprising (youth produced video and radio programming)

    $500

  • e-newsletter
  • invitations to CMP events and community screenings
  • subscription to quarterly CMP web video shorts
  • best of DROP TV and Radio Uprising (youth produced video and radio programming)
  • free admission to CMP events for one year

    $1000

  • e-newsletter
  • invitations to CMP events and community screenings
  • subscription to quarterly CMP web video shorts
  • best of DROP TV and Radio Uprising (youth produced video and radio programming)
  • free admission to CMP events for one year
  • video report from a student

We appreciate your support! Thank you!

*50 km is actually about 4 miles longer than a marathon, but why not go the distance?!